User: Frank Buss

Re:non flash dilbert

On: Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt

Why are some pictures in black/white? With a small PHP script you can extract the images from the original site:
http://www.frank-buss.de/dilbert/
Sometimes there are some ids in a row which doesn't exists, but looks like it works at least starting from id=2012

Re:Non-procedural programming

On: Practical Common Lisp

There are some information at Paul Graham's site: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html and a more technical description: http://lib.store.yahoo.com/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcer pts.txt

Re:Genetic Algorithm

On: Mars Rescue Mission Programming Challenge

A genetic algorithm is a good idea and would be a candidate for one of the exceptional solution prizes. Currently all solutions are manual solutions or brute force C/C++ programs.

Re:Figured it out by looking at code

On: Mars Rescue Mission Programming Challenge

I wondered why they put that path in the map that is just big enough for your ship to get through.

Are you sure, that the maximum speed in this path is 1? :-)